The Big Review | Lacma's David Geffen Galleries ★★★★

The Art Newspaper reviews Peter Zumthor’s new Los Angeles County Museum of Art building, now called the David Geffen Galleries, awarding it a four-star rating and noting its $724 million cost. The concrete-and-glass structure is elevated on seven legs (described as “pavilions”) and emphasizes natural light and views through floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking Wilshire Boulevard and the La Brea Tar Pits. The building integrates campus sightlines to works including Chris Burden’s “Urban Light” (2008) and Henri Matisse’s 1953 ceramic mural “La Gerbe,” and uses metallic curtains by Japanese designer Reiko Sudō to modulate light. The review frames the building as aligning with director Michael Govan’s vision since 2006 of Lacma as a “cluster of collections,” with galleries loosely organized under a “four oceans” rubric and particularly strong for antiquities, sculpture, and decorative objects.

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